Improvement in vapor-burners



HENRY FAYETTE.

Vapor Burner.

Patented'Feb. 20, 1872'.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE,

HENRY FAYETTE, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN VAPOR-BURNERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 123,879, dated February20, 1872.

Specification describing certain Improvements in Vapor-Burners, inventedby HENRY FAYETTE, of Brooklyn, Kings county, New York.

This invention belongs to that class of devices in which thelight-giving flame vaporizin g by its heat a hydrocarbon liquid, burnsthe vapor thus produced. The invention relates to an apparatus of theabove-described kind, in which the hydrocarbon liquid is caused to flowthrough a series of peculiarly-arranged passages, all the time exposedto the heat of the flame, passing meanwhile directly through the flame.

Figure] is a longitudinal vertical'section; Fig. 2, a top view and Fig.3, a horizontal section.

Referring to the drawing, a is a block of metal of any desired shape,from one edge of which projects a nozzle, 1), into which screws thetubec that conducts the hydrocarbon liquid from the reservoir above.From the block a, a rod, 02, extends outward through the'nozzle b andtube 0, said rod having grooves 0, or threads in its sin-face. Withinthe block a, are formed in any suitable manner, passages d e. the formerof which at its lower end communicates with the groove 0, and thenceascends along one end of the block a, terminating at its upper end atthe middle of one side of a plate, f, and opening there into apassage,g, which runs entirely around the plate f. At the opposite side of thisplate the passage 6 opens out of the passage g. The passage descendsalong the other edge of the block a, and terminates near the lower endthereof. From it a horizontal passage, h, leads to a chamber, i, in thecenter of the lower part of the block a, which chamber opens by a minuteorifice at its upper end into the lower side of the air-hole k, thatruns through the block a from side to side, and communicates with thecentral chamber 5, at whosetop is the burner m, which burner passesthrough a central slot,

1), made lengthwise of the plate f, the slit ot' the burner being bothabove and below the plate. The oil in the passages being firstvaporized, by, application of external heat, sufliciently' to start aflame at the burner, said flame at once begins to heat the block a, rod02, and pipe 0. Hence, the heating of the oil commences as soon as itreaches the rod n. This rod takes the place of the wicking commonlyemployed as a packing, its grooves 0 serving to conduct the oil and heatit at the same time. The heated oil flows from .the nozzle b through thepassages d, g, e, and h, in the order named, which passages make a longjourney for the liquid, during all of which it is also subjected to agreater or less heat, so that by the time it reaches the chamber 6 it isconverted into vapor, whose flow into the chamber is regulated by theusual conical-pointed screw 19. The arrangement of the plate fin whichis the passage g in respect to the burner m, is such that the flamecompletely incloses the plate, part of the flame being above and partbelow the plate, and the two parts combining at the ends of the plate,the latter occupying the dark part of the flame, so as not to diminishits light, while it is in constant and full reception of the heat of theflame which it transmits to the rest of the apparatus.

I claim as my invention- 1. The plate f provided with the passage andslot pyand combined with the burner m, placed so that the flame inclosesthe plate j',

as described.

2 The metal packing it provided with the grooves o, as explained.

3. The grooved packingrod n in c0mbination with the tube 0, block aprovided with the passages d e h 'i, and plate f provided with thepassage g, all arranged as set forth.

HENRY FAYETTE.

Witnesses:

GEo. E. BROWN, J OHN HITz.

